

Once enabled, users will be able to “move” a tab to another window, creating a separate instance of Chrome. XDA spotted changes in the Chromium and Android source code that introduced a flag in the development version of the mobile browser that flips on this power-user feature. It seems that Google will finally let that happen, at least with Chrome, later this year. As mobile devices get more sophisticated and browsing habits more complicated, the desire to have something similar for web browsers has also started to gain traction. These days, many users, even those with traditional “candy bar” phones, juggle multiple apps and accounts at a time, pushing manufacturers to support “dual app” features, though mostly for social media and messaging apps.

Limiting how many instances or windows of an app is running at any given time made sense a few years back when phones were simpler and smaller.
